Pacifica Quartet To Perform at Clemson's Brooks Center

The Pacifica Quartet will present a free performance at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, at Clemson University's Brooks Center for the Performing Arts.

Formed in 1994, the Pacifica Quartet quickly moved up in the chamber music world, winning top competitions and, in 2009, receiving the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance and being named Ensemble of the Year by Musical America. 

As ardent advocates of contemporary music, the Pacific Quartet commissions and performs many new works and also will present Maurice Ravel’s Quartet in F Major, Béla Bartók’s Quartet No. 6 and Luigi Boccherini’s Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 58, No. 2.

As part of the Lillian and Robert Utsey Chamber Music Series, the performance is free and no tickets are needed. For more information, visit www.clemson.edu/Brooks or call the box office at 864-656-7787 from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

The Lillian and Robert Utsey Chamber Music Series

For the past 26 years, Clemson University’s award-winning Utsey Chamber Music Series has presented 119 free chamber music concerts and continues with seven more outstanding concerts in its 27^th year. Recognized for outstanding programming and community service, the series has earned national accolades for showcasing the best soloists and ensembles in the genre. In 2007, the university received an Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Award for the Arts, South Carolina’s highest arts award, for outstanding contributions made by the Utsey Chamber Music Series to the arts in the Palmetto State.